Bannedjoe
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I am now convinced this world is completely off its rocker.
Gender reveal parties????
I've never heard of this until today.
This is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Supposedly, an expecting couple asks their doctor to determine the sex of their baby.
The couple is not told whether it is a boy or a girl.
The doctor is instructed to seal the results in an envelope.
The couple entrusts someone else to open it, and then proceed to have that someone create a surprise revealing the sex of the child, such as a cake with white frosting with either a blue or pink cake inside.
A party is held and the couple cuts open the cake in front of the attendees at the gender reveal party to publicly show the big surprise of what sex the child is.
Or there is another method where a baseball filled with the appropriate color powder or glitter is pitched to one of the parents who hits the ball causing it to explode revealing the color inside.
Woohoooo!
But if that's not stupid enough.....
Apparently, there are those who believe this practice is wrong, not because it's just plain stupid, or it's just another way to accumulate presents, but because it's wrong to call it a gender reveal party.
Just because they find out if it's a boy or girl it doesn't mean that the gender is correct.
No.
Gender is to be determined later when the boy or girl decides for themselves whether they believe they are a boy or girl, or identify as a toaster or squeegee or something.
My brain hurts.
I may have to disassociate myself from the internet.
Gender reveal parties????
I've never heard of this until today.
This is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Supposedly, an expecting couple asks their doctor to determine the sex of their baby.
The couple is not told whether it is a boy or a girl.
The doctor is instructed to seal the results in an envelope.
The couple entrusts someone else to open it, and then proceed to have that someone create a surprise revealing the sex of the child, such as a cake with white frosting with either a blue or pink cake inside.
A party is held and the couple cuts open the cake in front of the attendees at the gender reveal party to publicly show the big surprise of what sex the child is.
Or there is another method where a baseball filled with the appropriate color powder or glitter is pitched to one of the parents who hits the ball causing it to explode revealing the color inside.
Woohoooo!
But if that's not stupid enough.....
Apparently, there are those who believe this practice is wrong, not because it's just plain stupid, or it's just another way to accumulate presents, but because it's wrong to call it a gender reveal party.
Just because they find out if it's a boy or girl it doesn't mean that the gender is correct.
No.
Gender is to be determined later when the boy or girl decides for themselves whether they believe they are a boy or girl, or identify as a toaster or squeegee or something.
My brain hurts.
I may have to disassociate myself from the internet.
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